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Hand Benefits & Trust (HB&T), a BPAS Company, has launched a new collective investment fund (CIF) designed to meet the needs of Muslim investors within their qualified retirement...

 The latest Sun Life Financial Unretirement Index shows there is a growing concern among American workers that they have not done enough to prepare for retirement.

A new analysis shows that, contrary to popular opinion, mass affluent consumers were not passive during the difficult financial environment of 2008 and 2009.

A recent paper says that investors gain 2.5% higher returns every year, on a risk-adjusted basis, by investing in "sin" stocks–publicly traded companies involved in alcohol, tobacco, and...

A group of employee benefits lawyers led by Paul M. Hamburger have left McDermott Will & Emery’s Washington, D.C. office to establish the D.C. employee benefits practice of...

With the flu season having arrived, a new poll illustrates that many employees are taking their own precautions to avoid becoming ill at the workplace.

Employers' investment in workers’ retirement benefits, measured by benefit values as a percentage of pay, has dropped consistently over the last decade, according to research by Watson Wyatt.

A new Callan report provides what is says are 10 lessons for managing risks and the next steps institutional investors may want to take.

Newkirk announced the availability of a plan communications solution designed both to lower provider costs and to satisfy more demanding notice and educational requirements.

A new report says that although the trend toward greater individual responsibility for retirement security will undoubtedly continue, there is much that employers, financial institutions, and the government...

Forty percent of respondents to a new plan sponsor survey believe the worst of the current economic turmoil has come to an end.

A Vanguard Group study finds only 13% of respondents strongly agree with the view that their retirement had been permanently impaired by the past year's market decline.

Marc McDaniels joined First Mercantile's national sales team effective September 14, 2009, as regional sales director for the Northwest region.

The Retirement Security Coalition has unveiled a Web site designed to serve as a portal to information on the Web about saving for retirement.

Insurance brokerage firm USI Holdings Corporation, will offer expanded services to companies in the Northwest U.S. by combining the operations of two of its subsidiaries, Kibble & Prentice...

Invesco Ltd. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morgan Stanley’s retail asset management business, including Van Kampen Investments. 

Redefining defined contribution (DC) plans will dramatically improve outcomes for plan sponsors and participants, according to a new white paper released by Prudential Financial.

Most young adults think they'll need to be millionaires before they retire, according to a new poll by the Northwestern Mutual Foundation's financial literacy Web site, Themint.org.

Social(k), a Springfield, Massachusetts-based retirement platform, has added the tobacco-free AHA Investment funds to its fund offerings.

Despite the uncertain market conditions and negative headlines during the past year, most Americans who participate in employer-sponsored defined contribution plans value these plans greatly and have continued...